>> I am working in an organization, which is using a very strict >> webcontent filter management suite. Due to this i am unable to >> download any exe file, or surf web (even the necessary downloads from >> sourceforgenet are blocked). I was wondering, if python could be of >> any help. Say i have a python script, and i pass the URL of >> downloadable file, and it just downloads the file for me. > > Nice try. Can I talk to your employer for a minute? :) > > Honestly, the language doesn't make any difference here, and there isn't > much > you can do unless you control both sides, i.e. the server and the client. > But > I would suggest you actually talk to your employer yourself to see if > there's > an official way to get what you want.
Yes, the language itself doesn't matter as long as you go through the web. But if I were you I would use an ssh client to ssh to a remote machine on which I have an account, download the file there to that machine and scp it to the local machine. Assuming of course port 21 is not blocked. In fact, this is something I do regularly for similar reasons :) Good luck, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list